Ever wondered why boiling water is 100°C and not some other number? Hasok Chang’s Inventing Temperature uncovers the surprising struggles behind something we now take for granted. From a flask shaken for a week, to frozen mercury in Canadian tundra, this is the story of quirky, frustrating, and ingenious experiments which gave us the standard thermometer which measured the temperature reliably. It’s part history, part philosophy, and surprisingly, a real page-turner.

Empire of the Ants (original title: Les Fourmis) is a French science fiction novel by Bernard Werber, published in 1991 and translated into English by Margret Rocques. This is a review of the book.

This is a short review of the classic book The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas S. Kuhn, which shook the world of science at the time and continues to inspire lively debates even now. This review refers to the 4th edition (50th Anniversary edition) published in 2012. And yes, this is the book that introduced the buzzword Paradigm and Paradigm shift!

Here is a brief introduction to the famous watch maker riddle and a different explanation for it.